When I asked my old room-mate and former England keeper David Seaman what his ideal game was, I thought he'd say it would be having loads to do without letting any goals in.

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The freelance community is hard to draw into the traditional tax net and, I believe, has an instinctive dislike of the tax-t0-service ideal.

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In other words, I might answer a survey as if I were an ideal version of myself rather than reflecting a true self-analysis.

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And he would have done this regardless because he believes -- not the deal itself, because in an ideal world I made clear that there were tough choices he would not otherwise want to have to make.

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That's why I said late last week that a short-term continuing resolution was something that was far less than ideal in providing the needed certainty, but that over the course of the next several months, Jack Lew and our budget office will work with Congress to ensure the necessary funding for critical government operations.

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What he viewed as the ideal opportunity for us to catch up on much-needed sleep and reconnect with one another, I viewed as complete and utter insanity.

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Tonight I propose a three-year initiative to help organizations keep young people out of gangs, and show young men an ideal of manhood that respects women and rejects violence.

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